Tag: Brian Cody
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If the mighty hadn’t fallen ten Hag would be unemployed by now
Throughout my lifetime to date, I have been fortunate to see some of the greatest managers to ever practice their trade across several sporting codes. From Sean Boylan, Mick O’Dwyer and Jim Gavin, to Brian Cody, Liam Sheedy and John Kiely in hurling, or Six Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho in soccer. Then…
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Selections for Gowran – Sept. 6th 2023
2.20: OLD FAITHFUL (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.55: ALABAMA PEARL (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.30: LIVIO MILO (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.05: YOU OWE ME MONEY (DYLAN CURRAN (7)/DARREN BUNYAN) 4.40: DANESFORT – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTLEDGE/JOHN MURPHY) 5.15: LADY ARWEN – EW – (JAKE COEN (5)/CONOR O’DWYER) 5.50: NIKINI (ADAM CAFFREY (5)/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Don’t try to figure it out just admire it
Limerick…0-30 Kilkenny…2-15 Any hurling aficionados among you might recognise the above headline. It has been here before. On the occasion Meath defeated Antrim for the first time in the Christy Ring Cup Final some years back before a re-fixture was ordered over some cock up with the full time score. But Meath were so good…
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Three superstars, a plethora of penalties and fairytales not finished yet
A winter’s day, in a deep and dark December. A scenario (Ladies) teams in Meath have got used to. Early Christmas presents. In Meath’s case, an All Ireland IFC win. On the club scene, that meant our history making ladies capturing the Leinster Club SFC this time last year. This year, December action from a…
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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Limerick’s greatness indisputable as the road ahead looks mapped out
Limerick…1-31 Kilkenny…2-26 In a game of 60 scores over 74 minutes, it almost feels somewhere between futile and knit picking to start looking for and talking about turning points. Yet though this will doubtless be painful by the banks of the Nore at the minute, there were a few vital things which went against Kilkenny…
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There’s no system to decommision simplicity
Kilkenny… 2-26 Clare… 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score…
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One precocious talent, but Clare are no one-trick ponies
“Less than a minute remains on the clock, as I tighten my boot lace, and turn down my sock/Is that the crowd I hear, or is it the ghosts, of men who before me had faced the same test, and never once failed to give of their best? “ This corner would never claim to…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 19
HARRY’S HEROICS ALL IN VAIN Now is not the time for a major analysis or critique. For personal reasons which should be fairly obvious. Meath’s defeat in Ennis last night is still far too raw. Emotionally and in other ways. Suffice to say that the end result was bitterly disappointing. Have got off to a…
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Oh Hurling, don’t ever change!
David Dunne, Gareth Ghee, Mickey Cunniffe, Eamon Devlin and Gerry Keegan all share a common bond. Yet few outside of their realm will have even heard of them. They either are, or have been, the most recognisable hurlers in Louth, Longford, Roscommon, Tyrone and Kildare respectively throughout my lifetime. They undoubtedly have contemporaries in every…